AEW Collision Review - October 4, 2025

By Graham "GSM" Matthews

The Death Riders (Daniel Garcia, Claudio Castagnoli and Jon Moxley) def. Jay Lethal, Adam Priest and "The Dynamite Kid" Tommy Billington

Since Jon Moxley dropped the AEW World Championship at All In, Death Riders have arguably been at their best whenever they've been doing their thing in the ring. This wasn't my favorite match of theirs in recent memory, solely because the outcome was never in doubt and it was needlessly competitive in my opinion, but you can't say it wasn't well wrestled. I'm glad Garcia finally explained his betrayal of Matt Menard afterward.

Jamie Hayter def. Anna Jay

It's been nearly four years since these two last faced off one-on-one. Jay and Tay Melo are clearly headed for the newly-announced AEW Women's World Tag Team Championship, but I'm glad they're still getting opportunities on their own with Melo facing Toni Storm on Wednesday's Dynamite and Jay facing Hayter here. Despite the obvious result, this was a nice match.

ROH World Tag Team Champions La Faccion Ingobernable (Sammy Guevara and Rush) def. Cha Cha Charlie and Shayne Stetson (Non-Title)

It looks like Guevara's recent heel turn means he won't be exclusively relegated to Ring of Honor anymore. The biggest issue with LFI has always been consistency, so hopefully they're here to stay this time. This was a pretty standard squash as it should have been. Cha Cha was over with the crowd early on, but LFI immediately dominated him and won with ease not long after.

Eddie Kingston def. Dralistico

Kingston's return run isn't exactly off to the strongest start. His All Out match with Big Bill was not good, last week's tornado tag team match was better but random, and his matchup with Dralistico here did not impress me. In fact, I found it quite boring. It was then announced that Kingston will take on The Beast Mortos on next week's Collision. Is he going to be pulling Collision duty going forward instead of doing anything of note on Dynamite?

The Don Callis Family (AEW TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher, Konosuke Takeshita and Josh Alexander) def. MxM TV (MxM Collection and Johnny TV)

MxM TV were advertised as having a "casting call" before Don Callis Family answered the open challenge. This pitted two heel trios against each other, so I'm not sure who the crowd was supposed to cheer for. I guess it didn't matter much seeing how short this was. It gave Don Callis Family a decisive victory before their respective match on next week's Dynamite and Collision.

Kevin Knight def. Dax Harwood

This was part of JetSpeed and Willow Nightingale's ongoing rivalry with FTR and Stokley. It was more than just a match between two tag team guys. Rather, this was a hell of a highly physical battle that thankfully received an ample amount of time. Knight winning was the right call. We were wondering who FTR would recruit to thwart Nightingale and we found out afterward with Megan Bayne attacking her.

Harley Cameron Saved AEW Women's World Champion Kris Statlander and "Timeless" Toni Storm from Triangle of Madness

I appreciate the unique approach Statlander and Storm took for this face-off. Statlander still sounds wooden on the mic at times, but all in all, they did an effective job of building toward their championship clash at WrestleDream. Triangle of Madness attacking them with Cameron making the save clearly sets up a six-woman tag team match either next week or right before WrestleDream.

Paragon (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong) and Orange Cassidy def. The Don Callis Family (Rocky Romero, Lance Archer and Hechicero)

The Don Callis Family is so big now that AEW can afford to do multiple six-man tag team matches with different members on the same show. This was better than the other one from earlier, but it was still your standard six-man tag team affair by AEW standards. O'Reilly pinning Romero was apparently enough to earn him an AEW TNT Championship shot against Fletcher for Dynamite.

Overall Show

Not only was this an enjoyable edition of Collision, it also did its job as far as setting up several matches for next week's Dynamite and Collision and building toward WrestleDream. We were treated to some quality matches to boot, making for a thumbs-up episode. It's a plus whenever it doesn't feel like we're getting action for the sake of action just to fill out the two hours.

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